Our hope is that each service will assist people who are at various points in their spiritual journey and be:
- A place to begin – for spiritual seekers
- A place to become – for people who are pursuing genuine growth
- A place to belong – as people are welcomed to CCC
- A place to bring along – as people invite their friends to join us
What our Sunday morning worship looks like
- Our service usually goes about 70 minutes
- The atmosphere is pretty casual. There is no dress code!
- We usually sing 3-4 songs with a 6-8 person worship team leading us each Sunday.
- We usually have a teaching message from the Bible from our pastor which goes for about 30 minutes.
- Other components to our service might be special music shared by an individual or choir, responsive readings, dramas, prayer, people sharing about their life/ministry/faith and brief announcements about CCC events.
- We typically share in communion about every other week.
- Our morning attendance that combines both services and our kids groups is usually around 425+
- Our worship style is primarily contemporary with some intentional touches of our traditional heritage.
Some thoughts on worship
It is a powerful concept to consider worshipping anything. In a sense, to worship God is to surrender to Him. We respond with all of who we are to all of who God is.
Ultimately, we worship God because God is worthy of our worship. We worship Him because of what he has done, is doing and will do. God wants us to worship Him with clear minds and open hearts. We can worship God individually anytime and anywhere. There is also a dynamic of corporate worship that can be invaluable to us.
“Worship the Lord with me; Let us exalt his name together.” (Psalm 34:3)
“Worship is the strategy by which we interrupt our preoccupation with ourselves and attend to the presence of God. Worship is the time and place that we assign for deliberate attentiveness to God – not because he’s confined to time and place but because our self-importance is so insidiously relentless that if we don’t deliberately interrupt ourselves regularly, we have no chance of attending to him at all at other times and in other places.” (From “Leap Over the Wall ” by Eugene Peterson)
"So what happens when you worship the creator God whose plan to rescue the world and put it to rights has been accomplished by the Lamb who was slain? Worship makes you more truly human. When you gaze in love and gratitude at the God in whose image you were made, you do indeed grow. You discover what it means to be fully alive." (From N.T. Wright in "Simply Christian"
If you have further questions about worship at CCC or worship in general, please contact Pastor Mark at markh@cascadecov.com or (425) 831-6222 x. 101